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The Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD) is still accepting applications for PhD Fellowships and Early Career Fellowships.
The PhD Fellowship is offered to women scientists from Science and Technology Lagging Countries to undertake PhD research in the natural, engineering and information technology sciences at a host institute in another developing country in the South.
Costs covered include travel to the host country, tuition fees, board, accommodation and living expenses, and a special allowance for travel to international conferences. The program is administered with funds generously provided by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and is offered in partnership with host institutes throughout the developing world.
For more information on Early Career Fellowships, see here.
Application deadline is April 30, 2019 for Early Career Fellowships and May 30, 2019 for PhD Fellowships.
A paper by Helena Mihaljević and Marie-Françoise Roy (here)
The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), inaugurated in 1897, is the greatest effort of the mathematical community to strengthen international communication and connections across all mathematical fields. Meetings of the ICM have historically hosted some of the most prominent mathematicians of their time. Receiving an invitation to present a talk at an ICM signals the high international reputation of the recipient, and is akin to entering a ‘hall of fame for mathematics’. Women mathematicians attended the ICMs from the start. With the invitation of Laura Pisati to present a lecture in 1908 in Rome and the plenary talk of Emmy Noether in 1932 in Zurich, they entered the grand international stage of their field. The second plenary lecture was given in 1990 by Karen Uhlenbeck.
The authors dive into assorted data sources to follow the footprints of women among the ICM invited speakers, analyzing their demographics and topic distributions, and providing glimpses into their diverse biographies
The registration is now open here. Registration will be closed on August 2.
The first aim of the meeting is to report on the methodology, tools produced and results of the project and formulate recommendations and open questions based on its results. All talks will be informed by the results of the survey, data analysis of publications, and compilation of good practices. The second aim is to present the tools of our project in an interactice way and make it possible for attendees to learn ow to use them and answer their own questions.
The program of the meeting will include computer activities and discussions in little groups.
There will be a selection process due to budget limitation and the wish to ensure a geographical and thematical balance. More here.
The Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD) is now accepting applications for Early Career Fellowships. The OWSD Early Career Fellowship is a prestigious award of up to USD 50,000 offered to women who have completed their PhDs in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects and are employed at an academic or scientific research institute in one of the listed Science and Technology Lagging Countries (STLCs). The OWSD Early Career fellows will be supported to establish an environment at their institution where they can maintain an international standard of research and attract scholars from all over the world to collaborate. For more information, see here.
Application deadline is April 30, 2019.
The March 2019 issue of Notices of the AMS, includes tributes to several women mathematicians and their work: “Karen Uhlenbeck and the Calculus of Variations,” “Gertrude M. Cox and Statistical Design,” “The Life and Pioneering Contributions of an African American Centenarian: Mathematician Katherine G. Johnson,” “The Mathematics of Grace Murray Hopper,” “The Mathematics of Joan Birman,” “In Memory of Marina Ratner, 1938-2017,” and “Creating Opportunities and building Confidence: Clare Booth Luce’s Unexpected Support of Women in Math and Science.”
The AMS offers free posters including “Celebrating Women Mathematicians: Researchers & Role Models,” available on request via http://www.ams.org/posters.
On the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science the L’Oréal Foundation and UNESCO have announced the laureates of the 21st International Awards For Women in Science, two of whom (out of five) are mathematicians: Ingrid Daubechies (Duke University, United States) and Claire Voisin (Collège de France). It is the first time that the award was extended to mathematics. Read more here.
CWM has awarded 7 new grants for regional activities for women in mathematics in 2019. See here.